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- Serving a New Nation: Baey Lian Peck's Singapore Story
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
summary
The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line.The innovativeness of Dr Baey did not only make him a very wealthy man before he was forty, it also made him an indispensable actor in the implementation of urgently constructed national policies. Political leaders such as Dr Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kim San, Chua Sian Chin and Dr Goh Keng Swee picked him to solve pressing problems such as skyrocketing inflation in the early 1970s, the crisis in prisoner ward in the late 1970s, and the drug addiction epidemic in that same latter period. His one condition for taking on public positions was that he should not be paid. It was exactly this independent trait that made him so highly effective. This book tells his amazing life story, taking us into a surprising world where the qualities that make a good entrepreneur are exactly what make a good public servant … as long as he remains unbound by the bureaucracy.“Dr Baey Lian Peck put on hold a growing and profitable family business and decided to serve the nation in community and social service. He wore many and different hats and did remarkably well in all the challenging fields he undertook. His contribution to the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts was the most significant.” - K.V. Veloo, pioneer in Probation and Aftercare who set up SANA (Aftercare) Counselling Service, and Prison Welfare Service.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgement
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Born a Businessman
- pp. 1-42
- 2. Seeking to Serve
- pp. 43-93
- 3. Seeing the Big Picture
- pp. 95-107
- Appendices
- APPENDIX I
- pp. 111-113
- APPENDIX II
- pp. 114-116
- APPENDIX III
- p. 117
- APPENDIX IV
- p. 118
- APPENDIX V
- pp. 119-125
- APPENDIX VI
- pp. 126-127
- APPENDIX VII
- pp. 128-129
- APPENDIX VIII
- pp. 130-131
- APPENDIX IX
- pp. 132-135
- APPENDIX X
- pp. 136-139
- References
- p. 140
- About the Author
- p. 141
Additional Information
ISBN
9789814345439
Related ISBN(s)
9789814345422
MARC Record
OCLC
811488596
Pages
141
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No